You are DeathSpank, a hero and the ultimate Dispenser of Justice. You must defeat the Anti-Spank and his army of Cyborques, before they cast an evil shadow over Spanktopia. Discover exciting new worlds and battle hordes of enemies as you search to unlock the secret within the Fires of Bacon.

Your free gift with this title is an extra character, Roesha, who will be available to download from next week’s publish – you can grab it from the PLAY Offer section on the Store, where you’ll also be able to pick up your pre-orders.

Also new this week, we have Elevator Action Deluxe from Square Enix, a retro-reboot of the classic spy, document collecting arcade game from days of yore. Well, 1983 was not quite the days of yore but it was a long time ago in videogames! The original arcade game is included in this release so you can see what all the fuss was about.

We’ve added a few extras throughout the month of September already, you had a very full couple of weeks at the start of the month – but there is one more treat coming on Friday/Saturday for this month before we kick off September.

Got a few coming down in September – PSone releases have never been very regular I’m afraid, they all sort of take as long as they take, but we’re approaching quite a few Monkey Paw releases as well in the near future.

Nice update.
Let’s have some bacon.
Elevator action a bit overpriced for not having online multiplayer…

Have you read the story from Eurogamer about Microsoft forcing all publishers to NOT release their games first on PSN otherwise M$ can decline release on Xbox?
That’s why they often get stuff a few weeks early (because they pay publishers extra) and Sony never?
(example Summer of Arcade vs. PSN Play)
And that M$ does not allow publishers to have more content on other systems than on Xbox?
(like having extra stages or whatever on PS3 to use the of Blu-ray capacity.)

IS THIS WHY NOT A SINGLE THIRD PARTY GAME IS BETTER ON PS3 OR HAS MORE CONTENT?
(except fore the ones releasing substantially later on PS3.)

If so, Sony should sue Microsoft for this practice as it sounds like very unfair business and puts them obviously in a big disadvantage.
M$ has already been sucessfully sued over similar unfair behaviour for their Windows software.
Lovely company.

Persona 3 Portable was supposed to come out five months ago, and ever since you’ve been saying soon. A couple of weeks ago even “very soon”. This is ridiculous, don’t bother commenting – just bring the game already.

(Just repeating what I wrote last week and hoping for some kind of answer/feedback this time around.)

I have two suggestions:

#1: Put Full Game Trials of more/all PS2 HD Collection games into the PS Store. I guess there can’t be demos of these games, so Full Game Trials must be the way to go. The God of War Collection had trials, and that was great (I bought the games afterwards). My issue is that I was looking into buying the (then discounted) Prince of Persia Collection bundle, but several people said/wrote that many sound effects in these games are way off. So I would have liked to be able to test these games first.

#2: Make the Full Game Trials permanently available for one-time-use, just like in the US Store.

Thanks for the feedback – we’re looking at making alterations to Plus at the moment and one of the initiatives, along with organising the Plus section to make it easier for you to find content, is to offer the full-game trials permanently as they do in the US – we hope to bring this to you all soon.

As for your frist point, it’s up to the publisher to decide if they want to do trials for their HD collections so we can encourage this but not enforce it.

You have had a great deal of content and day-one discounts in August including a massive exclusivity window on the Resistance 3 Beta in August, it just happened to be a predominatly front-loaded month.

I know the developers are submitting a new build at the moment, so once it’s ready we’ll put it up immediately as a running replacement – the game will be back once the new build has gone through test, and it’s in test at the moment.

I am guessing maybe next week the pink knight will be available. Hei, my wife is bugging me about that, so i am nagging you. Second, why arent the dip switches free for psplus members and who preordered it. They did that on the us store. And third, what about the god of war origins demo for the plus members?

Aw, I was overjoyed in seeing Shock Troopers, my most fave Neo Geo game ever, was on the US Store last night but disappointed that it’s not here on the Eu store. Was really hoping to buy that. Nothing else up today I want though I’ll take free themes as usual.